Voyage Biomedical

Voyage Biomedical was a private medtech startup developing a brain cooling device intended to reduce neurologic injury during stroke and other ischemic events. The company focused on targeted therapeutic hypothermia delivered through a catheter-based system, commonly described as the Voyage Brain Cooling System. Public startup profiles place the company in Berkeley, California, and identify Y Combinator, Berkeley SkyDeck, and Creative Destruction Lab among its backers. Voyage Biomedical appears to have been acquired by Penumbra, after which third-party databases marked it as closed or acquired. It was not a drug-development biotech company, but it was clearly healthcare-related through its neuroprotection and acute care device focus.